Beyond Human Sacrifice. Published Nov 24, 2002 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM EST. By Newsweek Staff . ... For the Aztecs, art was no decorative luxury.

The Mayans are lauded for their achievements—art & architecture, an intricate calendar, and developed culture. But there was a grimmer side to the civilization: human sacrifice.

Human sacrifice is depicted frequently in their art, and may have been performed in an effort to ensure bountiful harvests. Remains of multiple sacrificed people have been found in Moche temples ...

Ultimate human sacrifice 'Suddenly I am a born-again gallery-goer.' Gyles Brandreth, not normally to be seen in art galleries, is dazzled by the Royal Academy's 'Aztecs' exhibition ...

Human sacrifice was practiced in China for thousands of years. At a 4,000-year-old cemetery near modern-day Mogou village in northwestern China, archaeologists found hundreds of tombs, some of ...

Polino Angela, an ex-witch-doctor who now campaigns against human sacrifice, claims to have killed 70 people. He says he was initiated at a ceremony in Kenya, where a boy of 13 was sacrificed.

During a sacrifice, King Attalus presses two words into the liver of the slaughtered animal. Engraving by Bernhard Rode, ca. 1780. Wikimedia Commons Now 78 years old, Hermann Nitsch is a founding ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a "unique" human and horse sacrifice ritual at a huge prehistoric burial mound in southern Siberia. The evidence came to light during excavations at the ...

The skulls at Shimao foreshadowed the massive human sacrifice that became what Li calls “a defining attribute of Shang civilization” many centuries later (from around 1600 to 1046 B.C.) before ...